On Radical Responsibility. The Chief addresses students learning this year in Midrashot and Yeshivot, in preparation for their future study at college campuses around the world. Coordinated by Rav Yair Kahn. Followed by a short address by Rav Menachem Schrader, founding director of JLIC. Enjoy!

To hear Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein, Aluf Mishneh (Miluim) Benzi Gruber, and Harav Aharon Lichtenstein - speaking in hebrew, see our KESHET audio site: Zecharya Baumel – 30 Years Later

The Battle of Sultan Yacoub June 11 1982 - June 11 2012

30 Years Later. Mrs. Miriam Baumel speaks to the Beit Midrash.

Special Pesach Shiur: The Exodus from Egypt as a Social Revolution, by Rav Mayer Lichtenstein

This shiur was given during the Herzog College Yemei Iyun 5770. This, as well as 14 other shiurim in English, from the past three years of Herzog College's Tanakh Study Days, can be found on our website at:

http://vbm-torah.org/yemei%20iyun%20audios.htm

We hope you enjoy them!!

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Online Book Launch: Reuven Ziegler’s Majesty & Humility

The final session of “Writings of Rav Soloveitchik” with Rabbi Jeffrey Saks was an online “book launch” with R. Reuven Ziegler about his new volume Majesty and Humility: The Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Amazon.com link or ordering info in Israel).

Rabbi Reuven Ziegler is Director of Research and Archives of the Toras HoRav Foundationand has edited numerous volumes of Rabbi Soloveitchik’s writings. He is also a founder of Yeshivat Har Etzion’s Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash and serves as its Editor-in-Chief.

See: 

http://blog.webyeshiva.org/podcast/online-book-launch-reuven-zieglers-majesty-humility

Chazal's Preambles to Megillat Esther - Special Mussar Series - Parts 3 and 4 of an eight part series

Chazal's Preambles to Megillat Esther - Special Mussar Series - Parts 1 and 2

Battling Empires and Battling Devils: Shmuel, Rav Chiya and Rebbi Yitzchak;

A Tale of Two Cities: Chanina bar Ada

On the Thought of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik zt"l, by Rabbi Reuven Ziegler. Rabbi Ziegler, VBM Editor in Chief, recently published a book "Majesty and Humility, The Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik."

A panel discussion was held at YU, with Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, Rabbi Jacob J. Schachter, Dr. David Shatz, and Rabbi Ziegler. The first half of the panel can be heard at http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/772057/Rabbi_Dr_Jacob_J_Schacter/Panel_on_%E2%80%98Majesty_and_Humility:_The_Thought_of_Rabbi_Joseph_B_Soloveitchik%E2%80%99_by_Rabbi_Reuven_Ziegler

Special Shiur: Thoughts on the Crisis in Japan, by Rav Moshe Taragin

Hosted by Congregation Etz Chaim of Kew Gardens Hills, Motzaei Shabbat Vayakhel February 26, 2011. With Rav Amnon Bazak, David Landes and Rav Daniel Rhein

Special Shiur: Religious Opportunity on a Secular Campus, lecture by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, introduced by Rav Yair Kahn, and followed by a question and answer session. Thursday, March 10, 2011. Jointly sponsored by the Yeshiva Forum for Campus Awareness and JLIC (Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus)

Special Lecture: Rethinking Contemporary Modern Orthodoxy, by Rosh HaYeshiva Harav Mosheh Lichtenstein, given Sunday January 9th, to the Kollel Yom Rishon of Yeshiva University

Press Conference with Harav Aharon Lichtenstein, Rosh Chodesh Shvat 5771, 3 Questions: Tefilla Text set by Chazal vs Individual Prayer, Torah Hashkafa on Psychology, Women's Roles

Special Sicha by Harav Aharon Lichtenstein to Bnei Chul, Rosh Chodesh Shvat 5771, Moshe Rabbeinu the Ba'al Teshuva

During the Lebanon war of 2006, the yeshiva hosted a group of residents from the northern city of Carmiel who had to evacuate their homes. This short (3 minute) film summarizes their visit.